The Greatest Generation

New York: Random House, 1998. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Hardcover. very good/good (). xxx, 412, [4] pages. Illustrations. Index. Slight creasing and small chips to DJ edges. Inscribed by the author, Tom Brokaw, on the title page. DJ has slight creasing and small chips to dust jacket edges. Thomas John Brokaw (/born February 6, 1940) is an American television journalist and author. He was the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News for 22 years (1982-2004). He is the only person to have hosted all three major NBC News programs: The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and Meet the Press. He now serves as a special correspondent for NBC News and works on documentaries for other outlets. Along with his competitors Peter Jennings at ABC News and Dan Rather at CBS News, Brokaw was one of the "Big Three" news anchors in the U.S. during the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. The three hosted their networks' flagship nightly news programs for over 20 years, and all three started and retired (or died, in Jennings' case) within a year of each other. He is the author of The Greatest Generation (1998) and other books and the recipient of numerous honors including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which was awarded to him by President Barack Obama in 2014. The Greatest Generation is a 1998 book by journalist Tom Brokaw that profiles those who grew up in the United States during the deprivation of the Great Depression and then went on to fight in World War II as well as those whose productivity within the home front during World War II made a decisive material contribution to the war effort. The book popularized the term Greatest Generation for the name of the cultural generation before the Silent Generation. Brokaw profiles those who came of age during World War II in the United States, stemming from his attendance at the D-Day 40th anniversary celebrations. In the book, Brokaw wrote that "it is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced." He argued that these men and women fought not for fame and recognition, but because it was the "right thing to do. Among those interviewed are George Bush, Ben Bradlee, Art Buchwald, Andy Rooney, Julia Child, Robert Dole, and Arthur Schlesinger.